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'Randall "Randy" Marsh' and 'Sharon' (previously 'Carol') 'Marsh' (née 'Kimble') are fictional characters in the animated series South Park. Randy is voiced by Trey Parker. Sharon has been voiced by Mary Kay Bergman, Mona Marshall, Eliza Schneider and currently April Stewart.
Randy has, in recent seasons, become one of the most common adult characters. Like most adults on the show, he has a tendency to get caught up into any trend or mentality that the episode demands — and, just as quickly, assume the exact opposite position on an issue, often for petty and childish reasons (see "Goobacks"). Randy is more prominent in this characteristic than most, and as such is often used to represent ideas or mentalities that the ''South Park'' creators find illogical or stupid. He is also often overdramatic and is a hypochondriac, often acting incredibly ill and weak and usually calling out "Staaaaan" in a coarse voice when doing so. He also has a tendency to go in outbursts. While Sharon often has tendencies to act like this, as do most of the town's adults, she is often portrayed as the "straight man" compared to Randy and comments on how ridiculous he acts (for example "The Losing Edge," "Make Love, Not Warcraft"). The two also have been shown fighting in several episodes, and in fact briefly divorced in "Clubhouses". Despite Randy's shortcomings and stupidity, he is shown to be very caring, even going as far as to risk his life to rescue his son and their friends from senior motorists in "Grey Dawn"
Both Sharon and Randy are seen among the town's somewhat-more-affluent population (which really just means they are not rednecks), though they are apparently less liberal than the Broflovskis ("Smug Alert").
Early on Randy is shown to be South Park's only geologist, despite having dropped out of high school to join a boy band in the Season 4 episode "Something You Can Do with Your Finger." It is also revealed in the Season 8 episode "Goobacks" that he works for the United States Geological Survey. Because of his occupation and education, he is very often called upon to play the role of whatever scientist the town may be needing for its current endeavors; although he lacks the ability to perform any of the aforementioned tasks (one example being in "Die Hippie, Die"). He becomes famous for his unified theory of moderation in the episode "Spontaneous Combustion" for which he won the Nobel Prize. There is some evidence in later episodes that there are other geologists in town---he is seen having co-workers in "Make Love, Not Warcraft," and Clyde Donovan has also stated that his father is a geologist, but their workplace may not be their locale. He temporarily worked at the South Park Wall-Mart in "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes".
Sharon works as a receptionist at Tom's Rhinoplasty.
Randy was a member of a choir in high school, and was he chosen to be in a boy band called ''The Ghetto Avenue Boys'', a parody of New Kids on the Block. He dropped out of high school, and abandoned everyone, including his girlfriend and his parents. They made millions and topped the music charts with ''You Got It'', their hit single. After a year or two, he and the other members were replaced with another group, due to the fact that they were "getting old to be in a boy band" (even though Randy himself was only 19). In debt to the studio, Randy was forced to return all his possessions and return home, using the remainder of his fortune to complete his education.
Randy and Sharon are most notable as the father and mother of one of the main characters of the show, Stan Marsh. They have two children, Stan and Shelley. They love them very much, although Sharon's hot-headedness can get very strange. She can get very angry with Stan at very irrational times (like when he told her he was getting himself a cookie in Clubhouses, she complained about how men were all alike) and yet she sometimes doesn't get angry with him when it is appropriate to (like in Towelie when she buys the boys an Okama Gamesphere when they asked her about a used tampon Cartman found in her bathroom bin). Randy is generally a doting, well-meaning father, though his dimwitted naïveté mostly gets in the way of his relationship with Stan (a trait which, together with Randy's beer-guzzling habit, draws comparisons to Homer Simpson). Also, Randy can be a typical "pushy parent". Whenever Stan pursues a career or a hobby that Randy does not like or reminds him of an unfortunate moment in his past, he will display behaviour bordering on psychosis, for example, in "Something You Can Do With Your Finger", he takes Stan away from Cartman's boyband and smashes his head in a cupboard window because Randy himself was in a band which was forgotten. Randy's father is the grouchy, suicidal Marvin Marsh.
Stan has an uncle named Jimbo Kern, whose exact relation is somewhat debatable. However, due to the fact that his last name is "Kern" instead of "Marsh," he may be Sharon's brother, which would make her maiden name Sharon Kern. However, "Future Stan" says that her maiden name is Kimble in My Future Self n' Me. It has also been speculated Jimbo is Randy's half-brother by a different father.
In the episode Spookyfish, Stan's Aunt Flo came for her "monthly visit" which lasts "only five days or something", and her mother turned into a "total bitch", causing his father to sleep in the living room for a while. She was killed by Stan's evil goldfish in the same episode. Sharon was upset, because Aunt Flo wouldn't come and visit her again.
Randy has a drinking problem as examined in "Bloody Mary" when he was caught drunk-driving (and previous episodes such as "The Red Badge of Gayness", "Clubhouses" and "The Losing Edge"). Cartman also mentions it in the episode "Grey Dawn", at one point stating, "Looks like Stan's dad's been hitting the bottle again."
Randy is depicted as everything from a casual drinker to a heavy alcoholic.
Sharon is apparently South Park's "hot mom" — In "Lil' Crime Stoppers", Butters implies that he is able to provide a semen sample for the boys (who are playing police detectives) by thinking about her breasts, and in "Pre-School", the sixth grade bullies agree to protect the boys in exchange for a picture of Sharon's breasts. (It is notable that the way she is usually animated, Sharon's breasts are not in any way visible.)
Despite appearing in a number of episodes throughout the early seasons of the show, Randy was seldom given a prominent role, though he would occasionally become the focus of an episode's subplot. However, Randy's role has increased significantly in recent seasons, and there have been several episodes centered around him.
★ "Volcano" - Randy, not yet identified as Stan's father, discovers the volcano which is about to erupt. His hair style is slightly different from how it would appear later in the series.
★ "Clubhouses" - Randy and Sharon get divorced. Randy assumes the role of a partying father with little care or time to spend with his kids. Sharon remarries almost immediately to Roy. Through the clever workings of Stan, they meet in the clubhouse, where they play truth or dare. Sharon dares Randy to "do her" in the clubhouse, and they ultimately reconcile and get back together.
★ "Spookyfish" - Randy is miserable that Sharon's Aunt Flo has to stay.
★ "Spontaneous Combustion" - Randy is put in charge of figuring out why people are spontaneously combusting, although he is a geologist and has no certification or scientific background in the field of biology. Randy finds the reason, but lets his newfound popularity go to his head when his prediction backfires.
★ "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" - Randy and Gerald Broflovski watch each other masturbate in a hot tub at Mr. Mackey's meteor party, causing Randy to worry that he himself might be gay.
★ "Something You Can Do with Your Finger" - When Stan starts a boy band, Randy is enraged, due to his own experience in such a band, the Ghetto Avenue Street Boys. During his youth, he dropped out of high school to go on to fame, only to see the band break up when they were considered "too old to be in a boy band" (Randy was only 19). Due to his debt, Randy had to give up most of his acquired wealth and possessions and was forced to return home, where he used his remaining royalties to graduate and study geology. In the end, after knowing that Kenny had died by being crushed by an elevator, Randy replaces him.
★ "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" - Randy asks Stan, Kyle and Cartman to return Lord of the Rings to Butters house but accidentally gives the boys a pornographic movie called "'Backdoor Sluts 9'". Randy and Sharon spend all night looking for the kids (who think they have Lord of the Rings) but the kids are chased by sixth graders into the next town over (the sixth graders know that the film is porno). Eventually they return the movie, Sharon, Randy and the other parents catch up to the boys and give them a lesson on sexual intercourse that the boys are stunned to hear.
★ "My Future Self n' Me" - Randy and Sharon deceitfully hire an actor to play Stan's future self in order to scare him away from drugs.
★ "I'm a Little Bit Country" - Randy tries to prevent the War in Iraq through his anti-war rock.
★ "All About Mormons" - Randy tries to convert to Mormonism.
★ "Goobacks" - Randy is demoted from his job when a worker from the future, who knows more about geology, takes his place.
★ "Douche and Turd" - There is a nasty fight over the choice of school mascot. Randy, who supports "Giant Douche", is enraged when Sharon supports "Turd Sandwich" because she thinks Giant Douche is sexist.
★ "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes" - Randy becomes brainwashed by the new Wall-Mart and quits his geologist job in order to work there.
★ "The Losing Edge" - Randy habitually fights other parents at Little League baseball games, and engages in a grande melee with "Bat Dad." He ends up getting charged with fighting, but he does help the boys end their continuously-long (and tiresome) winning streak.
★ "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" - Randy figures out when global warming is coming, but in the end it is revealed to be a false alarm.
★ "Bloody Mary" - Randy is caught driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). He is an example of a hypochondriac.
★ "Make Love, Not Warcraft" - Randy plays World of Warcraft as a self-proclaimed noob and helps to save "the World...of Warcraft."
★ "Stanley's Cup" - They try to convince Stan not to coach the pee-wee hockey team. He last played years ago and he missed a shot and made a big match come to a draw.
★ "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" - After using the word "nigger" on Wheel of Fortune (This seems a slip as the word wanted was 'Naggers', an inadvertert racisted remark justified by a monatery reward), Randy is ostracized by all of South Park. His experience sets abroad debates over the word, and he establishes the Randy Marsh African-American Scholarship Foundation.
★ "Fantastic Easter Special" - Randy is revealed to be a member of the secret society, "The Hare Club for Men", which guards the secret of Easter. He introduces Stan to the club.
★ "Night of the Living Homeless" - Randy and the other community workers hide from homeless people on top of the community center. He acts as their leader and even shoots a man who has just become homeless.
★ Randy and Sharon used to be hippies as shown in "Die Hippie, Die". They were at Woodstock 1969 when they first met. If so, they would be 54-55, but this was just a cutaway joke, backed up by Randy stating, at one point in Season 9, that he is 35 years old. This would seem to make sense, because the boys (as well as the townspeople) have not been aging and have been fourth graders for the past 7 seasons.
★ Randy and Sharon are named after Trey Parker's parents. Randy Parker, Trey's father, actually is a geologist. Sharon Parker, however, is an insurance broker.
★ Randy inexplicably develops a dimpled chin in Season 2, which he retains throughout the series. This is first seen in the episode "Conjoined Fetus Lady".
★ According to "Future Stan", Randy doesn't like chicken.
★ Future Stan also states Sharon has a scar on her left knee from when she slipped in a swimming pool in My Future Self 'n Me.
★ In Child Abduction Is Not Funny, it is revealed Randy studied Mongolian in college, though he doesn't apply it.
★ In episode 6, Death, Sheila Broflowski refers to Mrs. Marsh, as Carol, even though it is Sharon (although this may be her original name).
'Randall "Randy" Marsh' and 'Sharon' (previously 'Carol') 'Marsh' (née 'Kimble') are fictional characters in the animated series South Park. Randy is voiced by Trey Parker. Sharon has been voiced by Mary Kay Bergman, Mona Marshall, Eliza Schneider and currently April Stewart.
| Contents |
| Personalities and characterization |
| Jobs |
| Family |
| Drinking problem |
| Sexuality |
| Episodes in which they are prominent |
| Notes |
| References |
Personalities and characterization
Randy has, in recent seasons, become one of the most common adult characters. Like most adults on the show, he has a tendency to get caught up into any trend or mentality that the episode demands — and, just as quickly, assume the exact opposite position on an issue, often for petty and childish reasons (see "Goobacks"). Randy is more prominent in this characteristic than most, and as such is often used to represent ideas or mentalities that the ''South Park'' creators find illogical or stupid. He is also often overdramatic and is a hypochondriac, often acting incredibly ill and weak and usually calling out "Staaaaan" in a coarse voice when doing so. He also has a tendency to go in outbursts. While Sharon often has tendencies to act like this, as do most of the town's adults, she is often portrayed as the "straight man" compared to Randy and comments on how ridiculous he acts (for example "The Losing Edge," "Make Love, Not Warcraft"). The two also have been shown fighting in several episodes, and in fact briefly divorced in "Clubhouses". Despite Randy's shortcomings and stupidity, he is shown to be very caring, even going as far as to risk his life to rescue his son and their friends from senior motorists in "Grey Dawn"
Both Sharon and Randy are seen among the town's somewhat-more-affluent population (which really just means they are not rednecks), though they are apparently less liberal than the Broflovskis ("Smug Alert").
Jobs
Early on Randy is shown to be South Park's only geologist, despite having dropped out of high school to join a boy band in the Season 4 episode "Something You Can Do with Your Finger." It is also revealed in the Season 8 episode "Goobacks" that he works for the United States Geological Survey. Because of his occupation and education, he is very often called upon to play the role of whatever scientist the town may be needing for its current endeavors; although he lacks the ability to perform any of the aforementioned tasks (one example being in "Die Hippie, Die"). He becomes famous for his unified theory of moderation in the episode "Spontaneous Combustion" for which he won the Nobel Prize. There is some evidence in later episodes that there are other geologists in town---he is seen having co-workers in "Make Love, Not Warcraft," and Clyde Donovan has also stated that his father is a geologist, but their workplace may not be their locale. He temporarily worked at the South Park Wall-Mart in "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes".
Sharon works as a receptionist at Tom's Rhinoplasty.
Randy was a member of a choir in high school, and was he chosen to be in a boy band called ''The Ghetto Avenue Boys'', a parody of New Kids on the Block. He dropped out of high school, and abandoned everyone, including his girlfriend and his parents. They made millions and topped the music charts with ''You Got It'', their hit single. After a year or two, he and the other members were replaced with another group, due to the fact that they were "getting old to be in a boy band" (even though Randy himself was only 19). In debt to the studio, Randy was forced to return all his possessions and return home, using the remainder of his fortune to complete his education.
Family
Randy and Sharon are most notable as the father and mother of one of the main characters of the show, Stan Marsh. They have two children, Stan and Shelley. They love them very much, although Sharon's hot-headedness can get very strange. She can get very angry with Stan at very irrational times (like when he told her he was getting himself a cookie in Clubhouses, she complained about how men were all alike) and yet she sometimes doesn't get angry with him when it is appropriate to (like in Towelie when she buys the boys an Okama Gamesphere when they asked her about a used tampon Cartman found in her bathroom bin). Randy is generally a doting, well-meaning father, though his dimwitted naïveté mostly gets in the way of his relationship with Stan (a trait which, together with Randy's beer-guzzling habit, draws comparisons to Homer Simpson). Also, Randy can be a typical "pushy parent". Whenever Stan pursues a career or a hobby that Randy does not like or reminds him of an unfortunate moment in his past, he will display behaviour bordering on psychosis, for example, in "Something You Can Do With Your Finger", he takes Stan away from Cartman's boyband and smashes his head in a cupboard window because Randy himself was in a band which was forgotten. Randy's father is the grouchy, suicidal Marvin Marsh.
Stan has an uncle named Jimbo Kern, whose exact relation is somewhat debatable. However, due to the fact that his last name is "Kern" instead of "Marsh," he may be Sharon's brother, which would make her maiden name Sharon Kern. However, "Future Stan" says that her maiden name is Kimble in My Future Self n' Me. It has also been speculated Jimbo is Randy's half-brother by a different father.
In the episode Spookyfish, Stan's Aunt Flo came for her "monthly visit" which lasts "only five days or something", and her mother turned into a "total bitch", causing his father to sleep in the living room for a while. She was killed by Stan's evil goldfish in the same episode. Sharon was upset, because Aunt Flo wouldn't come and visit her again.
Drinking problem
Randy has a drinking problem as examined in "Bloody Mary" when he was caught drunk-driving (and previous episodes such as "The Red Badge of Gayness", "Clubhouses" and "The Losing Edge"). Cartman also mentions it in the episode "Grey Dawn", at one point stating, "Looks like Stan's dad's been hitting the bottle again."
Randy is depicted as everything from a casual drinker to a heavy alcoholic.
Sexuality
Sharon is apparently South Park's "hot mom" — In "Lil' Crime Stoppers", Butters implies that he is able to provide a semen sample for the boys (who are playing police detectives) by thinking about her breasts, and in "Pre-School", the sixth grade bullies agree to protect the boys in exchange for a picture of Sharon's breasts. (It is notable that the way she is usually animated, Sharon's breasts are not in any way visible.)
Episodes in which they are prominent
Despite appearing in a number of episodes throughout the early seasons of the show, Randy was seldom given a prominent role, though he would occasionally become the focus of an episode's subplot. However, Randy's role has increased significantly in recent seasons, and there have been several episodes centered around him.
★ "Volcano" - Randy, not yet identified as Stan's father, discovers the volcano which is about to erupt. His hair style is slightly different from how it would appear later in the series.
★ "Clubhouses" - Randy and Sharon get divorced. Randy assumes the role of a partying father with little care or time to spend with his kids. Sharon remarries almost immediately to Roy. Through the clever workings of Stan, they meet in the clubhouse, where they play truth or dare. Sharon dares Randy to "do her" in the clubhouse, and they ultimately reconcile and get back together.
★ "Spookyfish" - Randy is miserable that Sharon's Aunt Flo has to stay.
★ "Spontaneous Combustion" - Randy is put in charge of figuring out why people are spontaneously combusting, although he is a geologist and has no certification or scientific background in the field of biology. Randy finds the reason, but lets his newfound popularity go to his head when his prediction backfires.
★ "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" - Randy and Gerald Broflovski watch each other masturbate in a hot tub at Mr. Mackey's meteor party, causing Randy to worry that he himself might be gay.
★ "Something You Can Do with Your Finger" - When Stan starts a boy band, Randy is enraged, due to his own experience in such a band, the Ghetto Avenue Street Boys. During his youth, he dropped out of high school to go on to fame, only to see the band break up when they were considered "too old to be in a boy band" (Randy was only 19). Due to his debt, Randy had to give up most of his acquired wealth and possessions and was forced to return home, where he used his remaining royalties to graduate and study geology. In the end, after knowing that Kenny had died by being crushed by an elevator, Randy replaces him.
★ "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" - Randy asks Stan, Kyle and Cartman to return Lord of the Rings to Butters house but accidentally gives the boys a pornographic movie called "'Backdoor Sluts 9'". Randy and Sharon spend all night looking for the kids (who think they have Lord of the Rings) but the kids are chased by sixth graders into the next town over (the sixth graders know that the film is porno). Eventually they return the movie, Sharon, Randy and the other parents catch up to the boys and give them a lesson on sexual intercourse that the boys are stunned to hear.
★ "My Future Self n' Me" - Randy and Sharon deceitfully hire an actor to play Stan's future self in order to scare him away from drugs.
★ "I'm a Little Bit Country" - Randy tries to prevent the War in Iraq through his anti-war rock.
★ "All About Mormons" - Randy tries to convert to Mormonism.
★ "Goobacks" - Randy is demoted from his job when a worker from the future, who knows more about geology, takes his place.
★ "Douche and Turd" - There is a nasty fight over the choice of school mascot. Randy, who supports "Giant Douche", is enraged when Sharon supports "Turd Sandwich" because she thinks Giant Douche is sexist.
★ "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes" - Randy becomes brainwashed by the new Wall-Mart and quits his geologist job in order to work there.
★ "The Losing Edge" - Randy habitually fights other parents at Little League baseball games, and engages in a grande melee with "Bat Dad." He ends up getting charged with fighting, but he does help the boys end their continuously-long (and tiresome) winning streak.
★ "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" - Randy figures out when global warming is coming, but in the end it is revealed to be a false alarm.
★ "Bloody Mary" - Randy is caught driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). He is an example of a hypochondriac.
★ "Make Love, Not Warcraft" - Randy plays World of Warcraft as a self-proclaimed noob and helps to save "the World...of Warcraft."
★ "Stanley's Cup" - They try to convince Stan not to coach the pee-wee hockey team. He last played years ago and he missed a shot and made a big match come to a draw.
★ "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" - After using the word "nigger" on Wheel of Fortune (This seems a slip as the word wanted was 'Naggers', an inadvertert racisted remark justified by a monatery reward), Randy is ostracized by all of South Park. His experience sets abroad debates over the word, and he establishes the Randy Marsh African-American Scholarship Foundation.
★ "Fantastic Easter Special" - Randy is revealed to be a member of the secret society, "The Hare Club for Men", which guards the secret of Easter. He introduces Stan to the club.
★ "Night of the Living Homeless" - Randy and the other community workers hide from homeless people on top of the community center. He acts as their leader and even shoots a man who has just become homeless.
Notes
★ Randy and Sharon used to be hippies as shown in "Die Hippie, Die". They were at Woodstock 1969 when they first met. If so, they would be 54-55, but this was just a cutaway joke, backed up by Randy stating, at one point in Season 9, that he is 35 years old. This would seem to make sense, because the boys (as well as the townspeople) have not been aging and have been fourth graders for the past 7 seasons.
★ Randy and Sharon are named after Trey Parker's parents. Randy Parker, Trey's father, actually is a geologist. Sharon Parker, however, is an insurance broker.
★ Randy inexplicably develops a dimpled chin in Season 2, which he retains throughout the series. This is first seen in the episode "Conjoined Fetus Lady".
★ According to "Future Stan", Randy doesn't like chicken.
★ Future Stan also states Sharon has a scar on her left knee from when she slipped in a swimming pool in My Future Self 'n Me.
★ In Child Abduction Is Not Funny, it is revealed Randy studied Mongolian in college, though he doesn't apply it.
★ In episode 6, Death, Sheila Broflowski refers to Mrs. Marsh, as Carol, even though it is Sharon (although this may be her original name).
References
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